Rolling Stone stopped being a relevant counter-cultural publication before I was even born but I do fondly remember getting issues (with a free subscription) around when Matt Taibbi started his excellent long-form journalism that excoriated the Bush II administration. He has since moved onto Substack and Rolling Stone is now a vanity press: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/23/rolling-stone-magazine-culture-council-publication